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BLYNMAN HOTEL DESTROYED BY FIRE 
Alarm Sounded at 2 O'clock this Afternoon. 
Hotel Unoccupied 
for the Past Three Years. 
As we goto press at 2.30 this after- 
noon the old Blynman Hotel at Mag- 
nolia is in flames and within an hour the 
big structure will probably be burned flat 
to the ground. 
The alarm was rung ina few minutes 
before two o'clock and the Manchester 
apparatus, consisting of hose wagon, 
truck and engine, started on a record 
trip to the scene of the fire over two 
miles away. The hotel is in Manches- 
ter, so that the Manchester apparatus had 
to respond, and not Magnolia, though 
Chief Hoare asked the assistance of the 
Magnolia apparatus as 
reached the fre. 
The Blynman is quite a large hotel. 
It has been unoccupied for three years. 
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Warren Knowlton owned the hotel, and 
three winters ago he built an addition of 
some 60 rooms. It was bought that 
summer by W. H. Coolidge of Newton, 
w&to has a summer residence nearby. 
Since then the building has been unused. 
We were unable to learn the origin of 
the fre. “The building was unoccupied, 
so that it is somewhat of a mystery how 
the fre started. Those who saw the 
building first when the alarm was sound- 
ed say the smoke was pouring out the 
attic window in the new part of the hotel. 
The rain this afternoon will go a long 
way toward preventing the fire to spread 
to surrounding property, though the cot- 
tages nearby are in danger of catching 
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We have no new light to 
much talked of probability and much 
hoped for decision of President Taft to 
take a cottage at Manchester the coming 
summer. It is pretty generally under- 
stood that the family will spend the sum- 
mer here and that they will occupy the 
Robinson house, near the Essex County 
club. The W. J. Mitchell house at 
Manchester Cove was looked over by 
Mrs. Taft on her recent trip to Man- 
chester, but though the house was all 
that could be desired as regards its size 
and appointments, it is extremely doubt- 
ful if the Tafts will occupy it. 
The Italian Ambassor has leased the 
Highland cottage, owned by Mrs. Eliza- 
beth Tappan, on Sea street, Manchester, 
for the summer. 
The Russian embassy, which has been 
located at Manchester for several years, 
will not come here this year. Baron 
Rosen has leased a place at Newport, 
Raa 
The Hungary-Austrian legation will 
be quartered at the James Beaton cottage, 
corner Lincoln and School streets, Man- 
chester, this summer. 
W. S. and J. T. Spaulding are now 
in Japan on their trip around the world. 
They sailed from a Pacific port about 
the middle of last month, and will girdle 
the earth before returning to their 
Pride’s estate the last of June. Their 
house on the shore will be opened the 
middle of next month. 
A. Lithgow Devens of the North Shore 
colony was a passenger on the Adri- 
atic, which sailed from New York on 
Wednesday of last week. 
Mr. and Mrs. William Hooper, who 
are abroad for an indefinite stay, had the 
honor of a private interview with Queen 
Helena at Rome recently. 
The dates for the Dedham- Myopia 
polo tournament have been fixed for 
Sept. 6 to 11, inclusive, making it the 
last of the season’s tournament fixtures. 
The new yearly rating of the Polo Asso- 
ciation players shows 34 clubs and 551 
players ranked from 9 goalsto 0. R. L. 
Agassiz of Myopia has been placed at 9, 
making six players with that handicap. 
Of these six, the others are from the 
Meadow Brook club, as follows: Fox- 
hall P. Keene, J. M. Waterbury, ‘jr., 
L. Waterbury, Harry Payne Whitney 
and Devereux Milburn. John E. Cow- 
din, who has not played for two or three 
years is the only man with a handicap of 
8 goals. Thomas Hitchcock, jr., is 
ranked next with 7, while Kingdom 
Gould, O. W. Bird and Hugh Drury 
follow at 5 each. 
